a.i. and human cognition

The trolley dilemma is a staple of philosophy because it probes our intuitions about whether it’s permissible to kill one person to save many more.

Three books unpack our infatuation with prediction, and what we lose when we outsource this task to machines.

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In Brazil, a foundation finances the development of an AI algorithm to optimise food distribution. Also in Brazil, a collective of Black women has been developing for three years a solidarity exchange system that not …

If AI has taught me anything, it’s the danger of drifting into mental autopilot.

Abstract. This chapter discusses the ideas and practices that may explain the lower levels of anxiety in China than in the West about existential risks fro

Certain aspects of Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism help explain why some Chinese philosophers are not as alarmed about AI as their Western counterparts.

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

The Computational Metaphor, comparing the brain to the computer and vice versa, is the most prominent metaphor in neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI). Its appropriateness is highly...

AI has created seemingly limitless possibilities in business. But is there a dark side to AI? If we rely too much on 'bots, what's the impact to our cognitive skills?

Ted Chiang was recently awarded the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's prize for short story excellence. He sat down with NPR to talk about AI, making art and grappling with big ideas.

To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.

Cognitive scientists and corporations alike see human minds as predictive machines. Right or wrong, they will change how we think